Footwear



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Dec. 10, 1968 A. ODERMATT 3,414,989

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1 9- 1 fly 5 United States Patent 3,414,989 FOOTWEAR Alois Odermatt, Zurzach, Aargan, Switzerland Filed June 8, 1966, Ser. No. 556,086 Claims priority, applicatsign/svgitzerland, Jan. 14, 1966, 4 6

7 Claims. (Cl. 36-14) ABSTRACT OF THE DISCLOSURE A shoe or boot having a lip close to the periphery of the insole projecting downwardly therefrom to define with the outsole a space which is filled with a packing band. A foxing strip is provided on the exterior of the upper at the lower marginal edge portion thereof, the foxing strip, packing band and lip being secured together by a threaded seam.

This invention relates to a process for the manufacture of footwear such as shoes, boots or the like with an outsole and a heel of crepe rubber or leather, an insole with a downwardly extending lip adjacent to the periphery of the insole, and a resilient inlay part provided underneath the insole.

With shoes of this kind, a system is known in which the rand strip is stuck or vulcanized onto the lower edge of the upper leather, particularly when it consists of crepe rubber.

According to the present invention, the space between the lip of the insole and the lower edge of the upper leather is filled by means of a packing band.

The invention also relates to a shoe manufactured by the above process.

The drawing shows examples of a shoe manufactured by the process to which the invention relates, the figures being as follows:

FIGURE 1 shows a side view of a first embodiment of an article of footwear according to the present invention;

FIGURE 2 shows, on a larger scale, a partial cross section through the front end of the article shown in FIGURE 1; and

FIGURES 3-6 are sections, similar to that of FIGURE 2, of four further embodiments of articles of footwear in accordance with the present invention.

The boot shown in FIGURES l and 2 comprises an upper 1, for example of buckskin, a crepe rubber outsole 2 and a crepe rubber heel 3.

A foxing strip 4 of leather or crepe rubber, extends from the sole 2 and the heel 3 over the lower edge of the upper 1. The inner surface of the foxing strip 4 can be covered with a layer of watertight material. The foxing strip 4 is stuck to the sole and heel and secured to the upper by a seam 5.

The lower edge of the foxing strip 4 is situated in a recess of the sole 2 and of the heel 3. The sole and the heel may each consist of two layers stuck together in the plane indicated by the broken line, the upper layer hav ing a smaller periphery (for the formation of the heel), than the lower layer which serves as the outsole or heel lift.

The seam 5 passes through the foxing strip 4, the lower edge of the upper 1, a packing band 6 situated behind the Patented Dec. 10, 1968 upper and made of a heat insulating and water insulatin material such as felt etcetera, and through a lip 8 ex tending downwardly from the insole 7 and close to tht periphery thereof.

The packing band 6 fills the space between the lip l and the peripheral edge of the insole 7, or the inside 0 the lower edge of the upper, and prevents the seam fron drawing the foxing strip 4 inwardly.

The lip 8 can be a channel lip or, as shown in thr drawing, a rib alfixed to the insole 7 by means of a SIIII of fabric 9.

A midsole 10 of crepe lining is affixed to the sole 2 by an adhesive, and the lower edge of the upper rests agains the peripheral edge of the midsole. A resilient filler par 11 of soft heat insulating plastics material is provided be tween this midsole 10 and the insole 7, inside the space defined by the lip 8.

The lower edge of the foxing strip 4 could also b4 bent over inwards and stuck to the lower side of the mid sole 10. An outsole and a heel lift of crepe rubber 0: leather or profiled rubber are then stuck onto the hen edge of the foxing strip and of the midsole.

The foxing strip could be made of leather instead 0 crepe rubber.

FIGURES 36 illustrate parts similar to those showr in FIGURES l and 2 and with the same referenct numbers.

In FIGURE 3 the foxing strip 12 of crepe rubber ha: an L-shaped cross section. One arm of the L is situater underneath the upper 1 and underneath the band 6, rest ing on the upper surface of the outsole 2, to which tht foxing strip arm is affixed with an adhesive. The othe; arm of the foxing strip 12 is enclosed in a strip of leathe; 13, of U-shaped cross section, and afiixed to the boo by the seam 5, which passes through the lower edge 0. the upper 1, the band 6 and the lip l8.

The foxing strip 14 in FIGURE 4 is surrounded by strip of leather 15, of U-shaped cross section, a longe: arm 15a of the U being turned over inwardly and se cured between the filler part 11 and the outsole 2.

In FIGURE 5 a crepe rubber band 15, surrounded by a strip of leather 16, is again used as a foxing strip. That part of the strip of leather 16 which is situated on the out side of the band 15 covers the stitches of the seam 17 or the outside of the band 15.

The strip of leather 16 is laid around the projecting edge of the middle sole 10, and one end 16a of the stri is secured by an adhesive between this midsole 10 3TH the outsole 2. A visible double seam 18 passes througl the edge of the midsole 10 and that part of the strip 14 which surrounds the said edge of the periphery.

In contrast to the version shown in FIGURE 5 thr seam 5 in FIGURE 6 also passes through the outsidc strip 16, so that its stitches are visible on the exterior The invention is also applicable to shoes and like arti cles of footwear.

I claim:

1. An article of footwear comprising an upper, an out sole and a heel, and an insole having a downwardly ex tending lip, adjacent the periphery thereof, said lip ant a lower edge of said upper defining a space therebetween a packing band filling said space, and a foxing strip pro vided externally of the lower edge of said upper and said outsole, and a. threaded seam securing said foxing strip said lower edge of said upper, said packing band and said lip together.

2. The article of footwear according to claim 1, wherein said foxing strip is additionally secured by adhesive to said lower edge of said upper.

3. The article of footwear according to claim 1, having a midsole between said insole and said outsole, wherein said foxing strip is of L-shaped cross-section and a lower arm of said L extends inwardly and is secured by an adhesive to the underside of said midsole on the upper surface of said outsole.

4. The article of footwear according to claim 1, further including a covering for said foxing strip.

5. The article of footwear according to claim 4, wherein said covering is of U-shaped cross-section and encloses an upper part of said foxing strip.

6. The article of footwear according to claim 5, having a resilient filler between said insole and said midsole wherein said covering has a part situated on the outside surface of said foxing strip, said part extending inwardly past said lower edge of said upper, the lower edge of said packing band, the lower edge of said lip to a position beneath said resilient filler and said outside of said article.

7. An article of footwear according to claim 6, having a midsole between said filler and said outsole, wherein said seam extends also through said covering and is visible, and wherein said covering is also afiixed by a seam to said midsole which together with said outsole extends outwardly from said upper.

References Cited UNITED STATES PATENTS 2,046,444 7/ 1936 Belyea 3614 2,521,252 9/1950 Pierson 3617 2,586,045 2/1952 Hoza 36-14 X 3,217,345 11/1965 Snitzer 3617 X FOREIGN PATENTS 36,068 1/1930 France. 643,119 9/1950 Great Britain.

0 JORDAN FRANKLIN, Primary Examiner.

ALFRED R. GUEST, Assistant Examiner.

US. Cl. X.R. 3621 

